I just read the worst status update from Faby (Fabiola). I lived with her in the house where I got robbed in September. This is so bad:
She wished me happy holidays, then said both her parents are in an Intensive Care Unit in Talagante, where they might die. Because she spent both Christmas and New Year at their bedside she lost her job. She's an only child, and when we'd lived together she told me she had no real friends because she worked so much (I don't understand that, she's a lovely girl), so she had no one to turn to than the ex-boyfriend who beat her up so badly in November that she had to plaster on the make-up for fear of taking one day off work, and he's come back from Argentina and found her a place to stay in Isla de Maipo and is supporting her. She asked me to visit her.
I think I have to visit her tomorrow. I think Isla de Maipo is the other side of Cajón del Maipo, I'm not sure where it is, but it's in the Región Metropolitana and not as far as Valparaíso or Rancagua. I won't comment on Luis re-emerging. I was also thinking of what kind of present to get her. Flowers or chocolates won't suffice. It's hard to find greeting cards in this country (did you see my post a month ago about how I'd seen ONE postbox in seventeen months?), but I think right now the most suitable gift would be a greeting card (please not 'Happy Birthday' or 'Happy New Year', hope there's a vague selection that's more like 'My Sympathies' and not 'Sorry for Your Loss' as that hasn't happened yet) with 10.000 pesos inside.
This is a truly horrible story, and Faby is such a lovely girl, normally more smile-y than me. I don't have to work tomorrow, I really must go see her.
My thoughts are with you, Faby! I'll find out which bus station to leave from tomorrow!
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